Netflix Downplays HD Streaming Importance for Wii
Netflix is keen on supporting Nintendo’s console, and doesn’t see the lack of high-definition support as an issue. A recent TheWiire interview with Netflix VP of Corporate Communications Steve Swasey shows the company echoing many of the comments Nintendo representatives have already made about the feature disparity — and even going a little further.
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Netflix Downplays HD Streaming Importance for Wii
Netflix Downplays HD Streaming Importance for Wii
Netflix is keen on supporting Nintendo’s console, and doesn’t see the lack of high-definition support as an issue. A recent TheWiire interview with Netflix VP of Corporate Communications Steve Swasey shows the company echoing many of the comments Nintendo representatives have already made about the feature disparity — and even going a little further
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Netflix Downplays HD Streaming Importance for Wii
Blaster Master, Fieldrunners Explode Onto Nintendo Downloads
Today’s biggest release snuck up on us. After a quiet weekend announcement of Blaster Master: Overdrive , the game has already hit the Nintendo download service. This Sunsoft-produced sequel to the NES classic costs 1,000 points ($10), and seems to hit the right pitch of what made the original game so revered
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Blaster Master, Fieldrunners Explode Onto Nintendo Downloads
Blaster Master, Fieldrunners Explode Onto Nintendo Downloads
Today’s biggest release snuck up on us. After a quiet weekend announcement of Blaster Master: Overdrive , the game has already hit the Nintendo download service
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Blaster Master, Fieldrunners Explode Onto Nintendo Downloads
Blaster Master: Overdrive Hitting WiiWare Monday
When Sunsoft announced their return to western development last December, they made a re-release of their original Blaster Master on the Wii’s Virtual Console their first priority. Now Blaster Master fans have a even more to be excited about: Sunsoft has announced that a brand new sequel called Blaster Master: Overdrive will be released on WiiWare this Monday, February 8. In Blaster Master Overdrive, players control Alex, the world’s “foremost biologist,” as he attempts to save humanity from a virus that has mutated animals into flesh-eating beasts
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Blaster Master: Overdrive Hitting WiiWare Monday
80 Percent of U.S. Teens Have Access to Game Console, Survey Says
If you’re a kid these days, seems like owning a video game console is pretty much a given. That sentiment is backed up by a recent survey by Pew Research Center, which found 80 percent of U.S. participants between the ages of 12 and 17 own a gaming console (via MSNBC ).
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80 Percent of U.S. Teens Have Access to Game Console, Survey Says
More Monkey Island, More Alex Kidd on Nintendo Downloads
This week, the epic Tales of Monkey Island series concludes with its fifth installment, for the usual price of 1,000 Wii Points ($10). Alongside it is Tumblebugs 2 , a PC puzzle port for 800 points ($8)
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More Monkey Island, More Alex Kidd on Nintendo Downloads
Wii Outsells NES, DS Outsells Game Boy
In what may be the best symbolic example yet of Nintendo’s current phase of prosperity, president Satoru Iwata announced that lifetime sales of the Wii have surpassed those of the NES, and the DS has outsold the Game Boy — making them, respectively, Nintendo’s best-selling home hardware of all time and best-selling hardware period ( via Shacknews).
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Wii Outsells NES, DS Outsells Game Boy
Uno Joins bittos+ and Ghoul Patrol on Nintendo Downloads
It’s that time of week again, and Nintendo has once again released a bevy of casual titles on the Wii and DS. We start off with Gameloft’s Uno for WiiWare, similar to the company’s iPhone version, for 1,000 Wii Points ($10). The update also brings bittos+ (above), a puzzle title popularized on the PC, available for 800 Points ($8)
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Uno Joins bittos+ and Ghoul Patrol on Nintendo Downloads
Muscle March, Dark Void Zero Hit Nintendo Downloads
We like to give games every benefit of the doubt, but this week some of Nintendo’s downloads are erring on the side of bizarre. The madness starts with Muscle March , which looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Japanese fever dream
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Muscle March, Dark Void Zero Hit Nintendo Downloads
